Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

571 Educator Quotes

How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

Any Cannot Colors Grade
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

Attention Child Controlling Education
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

Cannot Create Education Giving
  Favorite Make wallpaper
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Acquire Between Child Difference
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Child Feels He Help
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Child Free Him Potential
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

Activity Child Confound Does
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

Anything Ever Language Learn
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Activity Capacity Derive Desire
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

ChildHappy Immensely Who
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.

Always Been Existed Great
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.

Belonging Chemistry Child Going
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.

Always Custodian Honour Human
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.

Accomplished Also Been Characterize
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.

Intelligence Life Manifested Marvellous
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man's organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.

Animals Characteristic Degree Functions
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.

Become Duty Human Inalienable
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother's milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other.

Any Based Children Duty
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.

Basis Continuous Founded Marriage
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.

Affections Character Convictions Faithful
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There are two 'faiths' which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one's inner life, the second to one's life in society.

Belongs Exist Faith Faiths
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.

Brotherhood Children Garden Globe
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.

Child Expressed Given Invented
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two 'languages.' It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.

Aloud AsFarAs Books Combination
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.

Art Artistic Attention Considerable
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There can be no 'graduated exercises in drawing' leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.

Artistic Attained Creation Development
  Favorite Make wallpaper
If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
Almighty Fault Human Limitations
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
About Dependence Does He
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Beauty Imagination Logic Mathematics
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

All-Around Around Ask Capable
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Die Forever Going Live
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.

Altogether Grasp Growing Hand
  Favorite Make wallpaper

As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

Disappoint General GeneralRule Know
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.
Bright Look Only Spots
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

Every Expresses Formula God
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.

Always Am Better Breathing
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

Am Begin Colors Different
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.

Always Am IAm Just
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind.

Dying Early Enough Fast
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.

Again Comet Computation Did
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

About Comet Find Know
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

Again AllDay Almost Am
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.

Cannot Comet Cooper Elements
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

About Alone Cave Courage
  Favorite Make wallpaper
I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.
Appreciating Born IWasBorn Incapable
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

Alone Closet Girl Give
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

Affections Even Good Sacrificing
  Favorite Make wallpaper

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.

Bear Head Heart How
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Question everything.
Everything Question
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.
Aid AIDS Individuals Large
  Favorite Make wallpaper